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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.

William James

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom

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